Ten Hilarious Signboards

Countries where English is not the native language but have once been ruled by the British often have their billboards and other signs written in English – in their own native style. And sometimes, these give a very hilarious reading – specially with regards to the spellings.

Herein under I am sharing some of the interesting signboards or captions I came across at Funzug and I am sure you will find these amusing and hilarious: 

 Or vice a versa?

 Read the last line very carefully just above the telephone number!!

Here are some more:

For more such like boards and captions, pleze visit Funzug

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Top Creative Natural Living Pictures

Art is all about creativity and aesthetics - these two aspects when combined together make artwork immemorial and praiseworthy. While we still appreciate the beauty of Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso, the developing art in the digital age has its own beauty and attraction.

I recently came across some amazing photos in gif format from a photographer from the Netherlands and was really awestruck by his creativity and aesthetics. Since the country is lower than the sea water around it, one can understand the photographer's love and closeness to water, which is evident from most of his photographs.

Take a look below of this amazingly creative photographs that would leave you awe stricken too:

Herein under are some more of the Dutch photographer's art work:

All photos above are shared from Funzug

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The Beatles and the 'Good Ol’ Freda'

Many would not know who Good Ol’ Freda is and how was she related to the Beatles - a group that made young girls heart burst out whenever and wherever the band sang and played.

Freda Kelly was the Beatles' personal secretary and ran their fan club from their initial rise to fame until two years after their breakup. Kelly was a colleague and trusted friend to the Beatles, and while she's been offered plenty of money over the years to tell her story, "Good Ol' Freda" is the first time she's spoken on the record about her years working for John, Paul, George and Ringo - the Beatles.

The surviving Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to have allowed four of their famous songs including "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Love Me Do" to be used in Ryan White's film "Good Ol' Freda" which will debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March.

“Freda closed the Beatles’ offices, so she left with truckloads of Beatles stuff and gave it all away to fans over the years.” However, Kelly wanted to put down her story for her family, particularly her grandson. As Kelly herself put it, "Who knows how much longer I’ll be here, and I want my grandson Niall to know what his Granny did in her youth. I want him to be proud."

via Yahoo Movies
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Painting purchsed for £1,200 from Paris junk shop turns out to be missing part of infamous masterpiece and worth £35MILLION

Art lovers and collectors sometimes get the shocking surprise of their lives when they find out the actual worth of an otherwise ordinary looking painting bought from a junk shop.

An amateur art lover bought a painting  for £1,200 at a furniture shop in Paris, which later turns out to be the missing head of Gustave Courbet’s 'The Origin Of The World', displayed in one of Paris’s most prestigious museums, the Musee d’Orsay, depicts female genitalia.

It was long thought that head was removed deliberately to protect subject's modesty and the painting was was deemed so scandalous that it was not displayed until 1988.

Scientific tests proved it was the missing head of The Origin Of The World. Authenticity was scientifically established using state-of-the-art techniques that matched the two parts of the painting, its canvas and the original wooden frame.

Read more at Mail Online
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Portraits: Back and White Photography or Pencil Sketches

Man can be deceived by what he sees by men who have talent, expertise and grasp over their skills.

Kelvin's extraordinary art work - Lady Diana [top], Jmaes Morrison [bottom L], Mother Tresa [bottom R]

And this is what British artist Kelvin Okafor exactly does by drawing portraits with pencils - but it takes an expert eye to differentiate these from an actual photograph to a pencil drawn portrait.

Kelvin's art work shows his extraordinary skills of pencil drawings, created purely by hand — with no digital trickery.

Kelvin Okafor, whose only tools are a set of pencils, a piece of paper and the occasional stick of charcoal (though most of the pictures don’t even require that). Yet no matter how closely one looks, there’s not a pencil line in sight.

Kelvin says about his art work:

‘I draw in sections. I’m right-handed so I work from left to right. After I’ve finished the left eye, I work the nostrils, then the left side of the cheek, then the lips. I always work in that order. I work for four hours in one go, take a half-hour break, work another four to five hours, then have another half-hour break. After that I’ll work for as long as I can. Sometimes I might work ten to 15 hours in one day. It takes me on average 80 to 100 hours to do a portrait.’

Watch the video below as to how Kelvin creates his masterpieces:

Read more about Kelvin's Artwork at: Mail Online

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Jake Fried's awesome artwork with Stunning Animation With Ink, White-Out and Coffee

As an art lover I recently heard the name of Jake Fried. And when I saw his artwork, I was awe struck - for what he had produced with the help of ink, white-out and coffee. Yes I coffee that you and I drink specially when it is as cold as it is at this time of the year with snow falling outside.

When I saw his art work, I wanted to know a little bit about the artist and I luckily found a small introduction by Jake about him:

My name is Jake Fried - pronounced "freed" not like those greasy potatoes that are fried. I am a freshman in the scholars program at University of Maryland majoring in computer science. I graduated from Ramaz high school in Manhattan, NY. I program computers for fun. That's right, for fun. My other hobbies, when I'm too tired to program, include reading, gaming, tennis and skiing.

Scroll down for more of artwork and a few videos.

  

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Some of the videos on Jake's art work are as under:

This is how the hobby of painting develops into innovative art work using different mediums and materials. Jake's use of ink and coffee is really innovative, different and impressive. And I am sure you would agree with me after seeing and watching his paintings and animations.

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Sketch a portrait with one continouos line

Painting, sketching and portraiting is a much adopted hobby around the world. There are hobbyists whose passion is to draw portraits both of the living and the legends now no more.

But the portraiting attains its height when a portrait is made of one continuous line - that is once the sketching starts, the tip of the drawing pencil remains in contact with the paper - even during pauses.

One line sketch of Marilyn Monroe

This is the specialty of the Self-taught French artist Pierre Emmanuel Godet, who has attempted to make his work as basic as possible by painstakingly drawing famous faces from across the decades with just one single continuous line. And the results are simply classic.

Godet has managed to create lifelike sketches of stars including Marilyn Monroe, Bono and Michael Jackson using his simple technique. The end result is similar to drawings produced on Etch-A-Sketches - the popular drawing toy invented in the 1960s - but without the red plastic toy frame.

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Godet’s first attempts were chalk drawings on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, but as he got better he transposed them on canvas, with Indian ink. In the beginning he created simple shapes, like animals and symbols, but as he became more experience he moved on to more elaborate works, like celebrity portraits.

One line sketch of Elvis Presley

Godet started his collection of celebrity art back in 2010 and has since produced portraits of some the world's greatest film stars, movie characters and singers.

Read moe about the one-line portraits and sketches of Pierre Emmanuel Godet at Daily Mail
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Amazingly realistic 3D images

Painting has always been a passion for many and even today when a majority of people have taken refuge in teir digital world and remain glued to their laptops, desktops or even smartphones, there are some who are not willing to do away witht ehir passion of painting.

And when it comes to the 3D images, the painters need to be giving a big filip as these almost take onlookers by surprise.

The painting of 3D images on pavements is growing across Europe and America and one is really spellbound to see these paintings.

Recently, street artist Kurt Wenner from USA created a playboy's bachelor pad in a Singapore Airport, a magic carpet for children to ride over an Arabian fantasy city and a grand prix car for local female drivers to try out during the Bahrain Grand Prix. And when you look at these, specially right there on the pavement, you will be nothing but flabbergasted.

Even watching the images on the internet is simply amazing,as can be seen from the image captioned 'The Flying Carpet' painted at Bettona, Italy above.

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Watch the video below for a time-lapse amazing 3D photo being pained by Wenner:

Read more about it/see more 3d Images at: Daily Mail
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Eye Catching 'Car Craft' Festival In Moscow

Keeping cars, new and old, is a widely adopted hobby around the world between the rich and famous. But painting these automobiles with mind boggling artwork is altogether a different hobby - for this is the domain of people who like innovations based on their aesthetic sense. 

Herein under are photographs of a car show of hobbyists of this taste, which was held in Moscow. See for yourself how art lovers transformed their vehicles into something eye catching, unique and real beauties.

Source: Funzug

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